🤩Multi-Russia: the Tambov region

🤩 The prominent electrical engineer Alexander Lodyguine, one of the inventors of the incandescent light bulb, was born in the Tambov region.
The celebrated biologist Ivan Michurin, one of the founders of scientific agricultural selection, produced his new types of crop plants here, on Tambov earth.

And every Russian knows that the Tambov wolf is a friend to all.

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🏒 March 7, 1954. USSR —Canada — 7:2 World Championship. Stockholm, Sweden

Just over seven years had passed since the first official ice hockey matches in the USSR when the national team made its debut at the World Championships—and it turned out to be a golden one.The tournament, featuring eight teams in the Swedish capital, was held in around-robin format. The Soviet team, led by coach Arkady Chernyshev, had already dropped one point in a draw with the hosts (1:1), meaning only a victory would suffice in the decisive match against Canada. And they achieved it with a dominant performance—7:2. Although Canada was represented by the amateur team "East York Lyndhursts" from Toronto, they had scored 57 goals in their six previous tournament games and had crushed the defending world champions, Sweden, 8:0.

For the first time in World Championship history, the best players of the tournament were named by position, and Vsevolod Bobrov (was born on December 1, 1922, in Morshansk, Tambov Governorate, RSFSR) was recognized as the top forward, having scored eight goals.

The success in Stockholm established the Soviet team as one of the leaders in worldhockey. The national teams of USSR/Russia and Canada continue to hold the record for the most World Championship victories—27 titles each (we don't count the latest 2023 championship where Canada won its 28th title in Russia's absence). From 1954 to 1990, the Soviet team won the World Championships 22 times, and the number of players in the country who became multiple-time world champions reaches dozens. 🏑

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